ragdall
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Post by ragdall on Feb 9, 2014 21:59:16 GMT
I'm trying my hand at entrelac crochet.  Entrelac Crochet by diffuse, on Flickr I think this is the Tunisian afghan stitch. It's very slow compared with the granny squares I've made for afghans in the past and uses more yarn. The result is a very thick warm blanket, though. Crocheting is my annual winter curling project. I can't just sit and watch TV for hours and hours a day without "doing something useful". The pink and blue-grey one follows the pattern I was given. I doubled the number of stitches to make 4x larger squares in the blues. When I tire of one I work on the other. rags |
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Post by maeve on Feb 9, 2014 22:29:10 GMT
Beautiful, rags! What a clever idea to switch off from one to the other. Shall we see divots in the pattern to mark exciting curling goals?  |
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 10, 2014 13:25:31 GMT
very beautiful - members of my craft group got into entrelac knitting some time back, & it was fascinating to watch, but I've never seen the crocheted version.
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Post by ragdall on Feb 14, 2014 2:19:12 GMT
Thank you, Maeve and Sandra. Shall we see divots in the pattern to mark exciting curling goals? Hopefully you won't see the mistakes I make when I'm distracted by exciting shots. I pull everything out back to those places and start over. I admit I've had to do that a few times. I'd forget which direction I was going and work back the other way. That inserts an extra partial row into the pattern. rags |
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Post by jennieg on Feb 15, 2014 0:41:34 GMT
Rags, it is Tunisian stitch......way back in the early 70s I learnt how to do it from a series of weekly magazines called "Golden Hands", published in England. Still have all 75 issues, they are worth nothing to sell but are still a useful resource.
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Post by ragdall on Feb 16, 2014 4:24:55 GMT
Those magazines must be wonderful to have, Jennie. Were you able to make a large blanket in the Tunisian stitch?
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Post by jennieg on Feb 16, 2014 9:47:32 GMT
Not a blanket, no.......I made a snugly fitted waist length vest in variegated woollen yarn. It was the 70s, after all.......
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Post by ragdall on Feb 18, 2014 14:30:35 GMT
That sounds very nice. It must have been warm and beautiful. I'd forgotten about making clothing. Way back then, I made a few things for myself and my children. Now I crochet to keep my hands busy.
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Post by ragdall on Apr 25, 2014 8:01:54 GMT
The Curling season on TV ended last Sunday. Neither of the afghans I started at the beginning of the season are finished, but they have both grown considerably.   |
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Post by sandrainsydney on Apr 25, 2014 11:50:01 GMT
maybe you can replay some of the games!
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Post by maeve on Apr 25, 2014 14:35:27 GMT
Both afghans are beautiful, rags! You had some fun playing with the colour patterns.
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Post by ragdall on Apr 25, 2014 23:08:06 GMT
maybe you can replay some of the games! LOL! Sandra, Although, with my poor memory, the games would all "be new again", sadly, I deleted each after it was watched as they take up too much space on the PVR. Both afghans are beautiful, rags! You had some fun playing with the colour patterns. Thank you, maeve. I would have preferred that each afghan have only two different yarns throughout, in this small town, it wasn't always possible to find the same colour again when I ran out. I tried to find something similar, or matching. It would have been wise to buy enough yarn before starting the project, but I had no idea how yarn intensive that stitch would be. rags |
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